Folk Dance House Day

Dance House Day is organized all over the country on the anniversary of the first ‘urban’ dance house in Hungary. The gala folk music concert is part of a national series, which this year is being organized jointly by the Folk Music Department of the Liszt Academy of Music and the Concert Centre of the Liszt Academy. István Pávai is the concert organizer; he has already proved on numerous occasions that using scientific results and the demand for quality entertainment are not mutually exclusive factors. The Béla Halmos Trophy and the Béla Halmos Memorial Medal will be presented at a ceremony. The former was established by the Hungarian Heritage House, the latter by the Association of Friends of the Hungarian Heritage House. The Trophy, which is actually the violin once owned by Béla Halmos, is presented to an under-40-year-old musician actively playing traditional folk instrumental music in dance houses, who in the course of his/her work maintains contact with Hungarian communities living beyond the country’s border. The Memorial Medal recognizes outstanding professional and community ‘background work’ within the framework of the Dance House Movement.

Program editor: István Pávai
Preparing teacher: Péter Árendás
Host: Pál Richter
Featuring students of the Folk Music Department: Orsolya András, Zsuzsanna Borbély, Ábel Brassai, Péter Gólya, Ákos Gubinecz, Fruzsina Hódi, Balázs Horváth, Eszter Légrády, Vince Solymosi, Fatima Szalay, Boglárka Szilágyi, Márton Szilágyi, Borbála Teszáry, Máté Tóth, Zsombor Tulipán

GYERGYÓ COUNTY
  Verbunk and jódias (Ludaim, ludaim)
  Slow dance and fast csardas from Ditró

CSÍK COUNTY
  Morning songs
  Féloláhos, slow dance and fast csardas

REGION OF KERESZTÚR
  Dance order from Székelyszenterzsébet

KÁSZON
  Keserves, jártatós and féloláhos

REGION OF FELSŐ-HÁROMSZÉK
  Jolly songs

ERDŐVIDÉK
  Mulatónóta, slow dance and fast csardas

REGION OF KÜSMÖD 
  Dance order from Kőrispatak
  Love songs from Siklód

REGION OF NYÁRÁD 
  Dance order from Nyárádgálfalva
  Folk songs from Ákosfalva

MAROSSZÉKI MEZŐSÉG
  Dance order from Mezőbándi 

REGION OF SMALL HOMORÓD 
  Mulatónóta, slow dance and fast csardas